Saying Allen Iverson’s 2008-09 season was a bad one falls short of explaining how many things went wrong for A.I. He got traded, hurt, and exiled. He had to watch his former team make it to the Western Conference finals while taking the blame for his new squad’s failures. Read the full story

Allen Iverson hasn’t found a new NBA job so he’s spending the summer relaxing in his home state of Virginia. AI was reportedly hanging out with Michael Vick at a strip club, and he recently cut the rug at his celebrity basketball game. Read the full story

NBA fans that wanted to see how Ricky Rubio held up against the league’s competition will have to wait two years according to reports out of Spain. Rubio will honor the final two years of his DKV Joventut contract, leaving the Minnesota Timberwolves at the altar.

We’ve known this has been a possibility since draft night when Ricky’s dad said he might stay in Europe. All NBA and Minnesota Timberwolves fans can do is watch this Ricky Rubio Nike commercial and think about what could have been. Read the full story

Michael Jackson, the greatest performer of our lifetime, died at the age of 50 in a Los Angeles hospital on Thursday. Before he became a pale-faced punchline the King of Pop was the biggest star on the planet. No Internet, no hype. Just dancing and hit after hit.

Nobody likes to admit it now (Like nobody admits to owning one of the millions of records MC Hammer sold) but there was a time when it was cool to be like Mike. It was common to see dudes sportin’ the orange Thriller jacket or one glove, and everybody tried to master the moonwalk. Read the full story

For some reason NBA players, more than any other professional athlete, think they can rap. Guys like Gary Payton, Chris Webber, Dana Barros, Malik Sealy, JR Writer JR Rider, Jason Kidd, and Dennis Scott can be seen here getting their Hip Hop Hippie on. Kobe Bryant, Ron Artest, Allen Iverson, and Shaquille O’Neal have all grabbed the mic to show off their supposed skills.. I wouldn’t be surprised if George Mikan had a mixtape back in the day.

So who’s the best rapper in the history of the NBA? The folks at Hardknock TV asked Brandon Roy and Amare Stoudemire and they both agreed on the same player-rapper. Read the full story

They say good news travels fast, but it’s the bad news that moves quickly. People can’t wait to pass along the latest “Did you hear about…?”. The worst part about that kind of gossip is when the information is wrong.

An example of bad news (in both senses) is Chris McCosky of the Detroit News reporting on the Pistons Blog that Allen Iverson had been banned from the MGM and Greektown casinos in downtown Detroit. It was on Detroit News.. Of course I bought it.. Read the full story

• Allen Iverson’s “Boorish behavior” gets him banned from casinos.

A bad back has allowed Detroit Piston Allen Iverson to appear in only three games since March but hasn’t kept him from playing in Detroit’s downtown casinos. AI (and his posse) got a little loud in a card club and in a taxi in Minneapolis earlier in the season, but his behavior in Detroit’s gambling joints has landed him on the banned list.

Iverson is banned from the MGM and Greektown. The NBA is investigating an incident involving one of AI’s bodyguards at Greektown, but most of the blame falls on Allen. Read the full story